Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Recorded live at Bregenz Festival

Daniel Johansson (Hoffmann), Kerstin Avemo (Olympia, Giulietta), Mandy Fredrich (Antonia), Rachel Frenkel (Muse, Niklausse, Die Stimme der Mutter), Michael Volle (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto)

Wiener Symphoniker, Johannes Debus, Stefan Herheim

Johansson’s big-voice Hoffmann lacks a genuine pianissimo but phrases elegantly…Fredrich and Frenkel are nicely stylish…playing and choral singing are both excellent — Gramophone Magazine, June 2016 More…

Release Date: 1st Apr 2016
Catalogue No: 735604
Label: C Major

Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Daniel Johansson (Hoffmann), Kerstin Avemo (Olympia, Giulietta), Mandy Fredrich (Antonia, Giulietta), Rachel Frenkel (Muse, Niklausse, Die Stimme der Mutter), Michael Volle (Lindorf, Coppélius, Dr. Miracle, Dapertutto), Bengt-Ola Morgny (Spalanzani), Ketil Hugaas (Crespel, Luther) und Christoph Mortagne (Andrès, Cochenille, Frantz, Pitichinaccio)
Wiener Symphoniker
Johannes Debus (conductor) & Stefan Herheim (director)

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Bregenz’s Tales of Hoffmann is different from everything you’ve seen before. The New York Times praised the “thoughtfulness and creativity” of Stefan Herheim’s new production, devised by the director as a search for one’s own self in a sparkling drag show. A “shining-toned” (NYT) Hoffmann is embodied by tenor Daniel Johansson in the title role. He is supported by a fantastic cast: “Rachel Frenkel is positively ideal as Muse and Niklausse” (Kurier), Kerstin Avemo as Olympia is “endowed with brilliant, cheekily extemporized coloraturas” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), Michael Volle sings the parts of Lindorf, Coppelius, Dr. Miracle and Dappertutto, “the work’s four villains, with warmth and intensity” (NYT) and Mandy Fredrich is a “finely phrased Antonia” (Kurier).

Sound Format Blu-ray: DTS-HD MA 5.0, PCM 2.0

Picture 16:9, HD

Subtitles: French (original language), English, German, Spanish, Korean, Japanese

Booklet: English, German, French

Total Running Time: 174 Mins

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June 2016

Johansson’s big-voice Hoffmann lacks a genuine pianissimo but phrases elegantly…Fredrich and Frenkel are nicely stylish…playing and choral singing are both excellent

28th March 2017

[a] riveting adaptation of a score fertile in ideas that just fizz with energy...This is a production where one senses a group of performers totally at one with the director’s vision. Stefan Herheim and his designers draw you in to this eminently creative and dazzlingly compelling production of Offenbach’s operatic masterpiece superbly performed by an impressive team of soloists.

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